Lardo Moron

I was born and raised in a small farming community in northern Fayette County called Loradale Kentucky. My family on both sides grew tabacco for a living. A lot of songs that I've written are about my family and friends and stories told around the country store. We later moved to Jessamine County were I graduated High School (believe it or not). While other kids were crazy about the Rolling Stones, Elvis and Rock and Roll, my interest seemed to be deep rooted in Country and Bluegrass Music, with hereos such as Merle Travis, Flat & Scruggs, Osborne Brothers, JD Crowe and Hank Williams. At the age of 21, I got a job at the Lexington Fire Deptartment where I had a lot of time between duties to practice the bango and later the fiddle. Along about 1991, on a warm summer evening, I was practicing my banjo in front of Station #5 when a friend stopped by with his guitar, Steve Works. Then a neighbor came by with a bass fiddle and we were jamming everyday after that in between duty. The jam session grew until the pickers and audience sometimes were more than we had room for. One night, somewhere about 1995, a shy guitar picker came with his brother, also from Nicholasville, to the jam session. He finally got his guitar out when the crowd thinned down and immediately everyone realized this guy had something to offer. A special friendship soon developed between us and today we're closer than friends we're brothers, Moron Brothers that is